"He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation."--The Declaration of Independence

What I see in the Super Congress proposal is an admission that House and Senate rules are set up to make passage of good legislation impossible.

They intend to cure the underlying problems of committees, amendments, riders, etc by having a small oligarchy determine which bills are too important to subject to the farce that we call the legislative process.

If the usual bullshit isn't good enough for the bills that they want to send to 'Super Congress', why is the usual bullshit good enough for all other legislation?

After reading this, I would have to agree with anyone who were to advocate sticking politicians with knives who vote for this take-over of our US Constitution. I think a good place to start is the Socialist Congressional group. Just my own opinion (and I am probably not alone).

Excellent idea except for one silly little problem. Not exactly that little, really. I took my kids to see it at the National Archives when we were in DC. If I recall it measures about 20" x 20". You can't miss it. It's the one under glass that says "We the People" in enlarged script right across the top where you can't miss it.

I remember haveing to read a copy of it in school. Funny thing is that I don't remember it mentioning anything about a "super congress".

We have to start with our own beloved congresscritters who bring home the pork every session. We need men who can read plain writing and vote no most of the time, which is a NO for legislation/powers not authorized for the federal gov't in the US Constitution. A YES vote can be counted on to bestow honors on heroes and true friends of the United State wherever they might be.

If I were to run for Congress, I would promise to be present for every vote humanly possible and vote no on every one that I had not read, do not understand completely, or suspect is contrary to the intrest of the people of the United States. I furthermore would promise to come home every other year no more wealthy than from money I have saved from my salary by living in a $1500 travel trailer parked somewhere cheap.

A "super congress" would be completely unlawful, because it bypasses representation of all of the people. Only an Amendment to the US Constitution would allow such an abortion to exist lawfully, as was done for the Income Tax before WWI.

A Super Congress, by this description, is more like a committee with greater weight than before. I don't mind committees, as long as the run of the mill congressmen have all their powers intact. No amendments? That's plain wrong.

If they want to streamline things, cut out all amendments that are not significantly related to the legislation.

A Super Congress, by this description, is more like a committee with greater weight than before. I don't mind committees, as long as the run of the mill congressmen have all their powers intact. No amendments? That's plain wrong.

If they want to streamline things, cut out all amendments that are not significantly related to the legislation.

If it's not a "RTC Gathering" of a hundred-thousand ARMED Patriots at the Capitol-Building, I'd have to say "TEOTWAWKI", personally!

Seriously - this is about as far as they go without LITERALLY wiping their @$$ with the - original, National-Archives, Vellum copy - Constitution, Live, on TV and telling anyone who has a problem with that to get stuffed.

And where did all that Stimulus money go? Right into their Marxist and friends of Marxists re-election coffers. And who's going to get that money? The Marxist media of course.

Money stolen from the American people by Marxists for Marxists benefiting a Marxists takeover. Even if they call it and themselves, something else.

The pebbles were rattling in the cans over two years ago, we just couldn't hear them because the media was making so much noise. They did a good job and are still smiling about it! They're getting ready to do it again with lots of tax dollars in their pocket this time!

The Marxist slogan should be " Power to the people, as long as we have all their money and propety."

That "Firesign Theater" button sure brought back some memories. A midnight movie double feature in Gainesville, FL. featuring "Reefer Madness" followed by a flick by Firesign Theater that consisted of a 12" high rubber Godzilla kicking its way throught someone's HO train layout with a voiceover of the talking heads of the day commenting on Nixon's Watergate shennegans. Where are they when you really need them?

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

On the efficacy of passive resistance in the face of the collectivist beast. . .

Had the Japanese got as far as India, Gandhi's theories of "passive resistance" would have floated down the Ganges River with his bayoneted, beheaded carcass. -- Mike Vanderboegh.

In the future . . .

When the histories are written, “National Rifle Association” will be cross-referenced with “Judenrat.” -- Mike Vanderboegh to Sebastian at "Snowflakes in Hell"

"Smash the bloody mirror."

If you find yourself through the looking glass, where the verities of the world you knew and loved no longer apply, there is only one thing to do. Knock the Red Queen on her ass, turn around, and smash the bloody mirror. -- Mike Vanderboegh

From Kurt Hoffman over at Armed and Safe.

"I believe that being despised by the despicable is as good as being admired by the admirable."

From long experience myself, I can only say, "You betcha."

"Only cowards dare cringe."

The fears of man are many. He fears the shadow of death and the closed doors of the future. He is afraid for his friends and for his sons and of the specter of tomorrow. All his life's journey he walks in the lonely corridors of his controlled fears, if he is a man. For only fools will strut, and only cowards dare cringe. -- James Warner Bellah, "Spanish Man's Grave" in Reveille, Curtis Publishing, 1947.

"We fight an enemy that never sleeps."

"As our enemies work bit by bit to deconstruct, we must work bit by bit to REconstruct. Be mindful where we should be. Set goals. We fight an enemy that never sleeps. We must learn to sleep less." -- Mike H. at What McAuliffe Said

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.